The City Of Hong Kong

2. Albert M. Craig, William A. Graham, Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner. “China‘s First Empire”. The Heritage of World Civilizations. 1: 1152 (2007, 2005, 2002) Pearson Education, Inc. New

(Larsson, 1997). Would Hong Kong’s role as a door to China strengthen with the liberation?

Kaye Hong grown up in San Francisco and attended university of Washington. At the begging of his essay, he was not sure where he should lie his future in because he sees his future clearly in both China and America. Through half of his essay, we can tell that he is also considered China as a weak and low quality county by saying, “I shall deplore China’s lower standard of living, that the chaos of China’s government offers me no promise of economic security” (62). Although he had thought of go back to China, the bad living condition and insecure economy has immediately stopped his thinking. To put it differently, Hong is also lack of knowledge of China, and they way he looks at China’s future was incorrect. Indeed, at that time China’s economy and condition were not as good as today. But due to his enormous population, it is possible for its citizens to make it strong and rich, which this is also what the Stanford students are trying to express. However, Hong is very pessimistic with China’s

Hong Kong is an inalienable part of China, and this is our common sense is known since our childhood! For the Chinese, our identity is the most

The city of Las Vegas is considered to be one of the best entertainment locations in the world. Only in Vegas can you find top notch travel amenities and luxurious resorts, accompanied by world class dining and entertainment. Recognized throughout the world, the Las Vegas Strip is the iconic image of dreams and possibilities dependent only on Lady Luck. Not all winning takes place on the craps tables or slot machines. Las Vegas continues to reinvent itself, seeking better and more glamorous ways to enrich the visitors’ experience and score a win for the travel industry. It is this reinvention, this type of guest winning that brings me to discuss and explore the success of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.

The Chinese civilization spread its roots in the fifth millennium BCE and concluded in thirteen hundred CE. Historians separate China’s vast saga

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There is a large diversity of people in Hong Kong because it continuously expands in economy and market. This of course, is a big advantage to our industry because although Precious Gems and Stones came in second to the Electronic equipment industries with a high dollar value of $82.4 billion and each export percentage share of 15.7% in terms of global shipments during 2014, the Precious Gems and Stones industry was the fastest growing among the top 10 export categories. It went up 161.1% for the 5-year period which started in 2010. It was also propelled by international sales of unwrought gold and unset diamonds. (worldstopexport.com)

There was a song singing, “In ancient east there is a dragon/ its name is China/ in ancient east there was a group people/ they are all descendants of Dragon” (Wang). The dragon can fly to wherever it wants so that it decided to take a rest in the street of Bellaire in Houston of the United States in 1870. The dragon left its 250 descendants here and formed a so-called Chinatown here. At the beginning, Chinese people did not have the sense of local American dream because of language problems and lack of knowledge. They could not interact with local Americans so well based on their culture and living habits; they had no ideas how to talk to Americans. Fortunately, by 1980, its population reached more than 20,000 and its economics went much

When those words are being written down, a huge protest named “Occupy Central” is taking place in Hong Kong. At this critical moment of history, what impresses us first from the name of this protest is a power of space: Hong Kong people, who is regarded as the peripheral of China, by occupying the Central (a sub-center), strive for becoming visible and hearable to the center (Beijing) to resist their doomed future: an ostensible “direct election” in 2017, or even worse political sufferings that people cannot imagine. This highly intense political anxiety related to the mainland, since the postwar period, has accompanied Hong Kong people and been deeply internalized into their spatiotemporal experience. Based on a novella named “Nothing Happened” (什么都没有发生) from Hong Kong writer Chan Koon-chung, this paper tries to investigate how the Hong Kong protagonist’s anxiety of the future of his city, a temporal experience, however appears within a spatial, or precisely, geopolitical form, and furthermore, the paper tries to trace beneath the anxiety to the trauma that is interweaved with the (post)coloniality of Hong Kong.

The people of China had very strong beliefs about society and believed they didn’t need help from outsiders (Darlington, 2012). Before the sixteenth century the only foreigners to visit China were merchants, Marco Polo, and missionaries trying to spread Christianity, therefore not many people visited china as it very geographically isolated (Darlington, 2012). With mountains on one side, deserts on another, and water on the other the Chinese didn’t have visitors for thousands of years (Darlington, 2012). In 1514, a Portuguese vessel was travelling to the Spice Islands to trade goods (Darlington, 2012). On their voyage they spotted a Chinese vessel filled with merchants on their way to trade. Intrigued by what they saw, and wanting to establish trading with the Chinese the Portuguese followed them home (Darlington, 2012). At first the Chinese didn’t want to know about the Portuguese, but slowly the relationship grew. In the end the Portuguese were allowed to establish a trading post at the

The plans and narratives of the Kowloon Walled City have drastically changed through the years, as it has been an unrolled and unregulated enclave between the British and Chinese governments. It began as an officially planed Chinese military fort and afterwards witnessed three distinct stages of lawlessness, demolition and rebirth as an urban garden. It all officially began in the 16th century, when the Chinese built a defensive garrison town filled with soldiers, civil officers and their families (Carney, 2013). However, when Hong Kong was leased to the British in 1898, the Kowloon Walled City became a enclave in the colonized territory, where no laws of the official state applied and everything began expanding spontaneously. The first stage of the city’s unintentional self-organization began in the 1950’s. It is widely known as the time of three vices – gambling, prostitution and drug dealing. The official regulations of the British did work on Hong Kong and were reversely reflected in the Chinese enclave. As soon as something was forbidden in the city-state, people massively poured into the un-ruled territory and let the sins to flourish. This way the Kowloon Walled City became synonymous with violence, crime and disturbance. During this period, the city and people became one, the buildings were connected by piping systems and wires, the water poured through the holes and sunlight could barely reach the lower levels. Yet, in the early 1970’s the situation started changing

Kingdoms rise and fall, and out of their ashes come new kingdoms. Over and over again, the pattern recurs throughout history. China’s history and culture were born of such patterns, and it all began 1.7 million years ago.1 Archaeologists from modern times found the remains of the early hominid species Homo erectus in Yunnan Province, which was called Peking man. Peking man could walk upright, create fire, and possessed the ability to make stone tools, but it wasn’t until 2183 BCE that the vestiges of China truly began to emerge. The Yellow River, the cradle of the Chinese civilization, flooded regularly, and King Shun appointed his minister Yu to rectify that problem. When Yu diverted the flood channels to the sea, he gained the epithet Yu

“Hong Kong has been part of China’s territory since ancient times, but it was occupied by Britain after Opium War in 19 Dec 1984, the Chinese and British government signed the Joint Declaration on the question of Hong Kong, affirming the Government of People’s Republic of China will resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong on 1 July, 1997….”

A Concise History Of Hong Kong was a prequel to one of the most fascinating places I have ever traveled to. Going through history class, and growing up, I had heard many stories of Hong Kong, China, Britain, and Japan, but I never realized how intertwined they truly were and how their stories were really told. John Carroll did a remarkable job setting the scene for what Hong Kong was, where they had been, and how they made it through all of it and came out with their own identity.